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LEAP POR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUMS. No. 290,648. Patented Deo. 1a, 188s.

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LEAF FOR PHOTOGRAPHL-ALBUMS.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent No, 290,648, datedDecember 18, 1883.

Application tiled May 1S, 1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD MosER, of Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia,and Empire of Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Leaves for Photograph-Albums, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention has reference to an improved leaf for photograph albums,by which the photograph is retained in a reliable manner, and by whichit may be inserted or removed without injury to the leaf; and theinvention consists of a leaf for photograph-albums, made of anintermediate layer or frame of cardboard having an opening of greaterlength than the photograph, and face-layers of cardpaper havingtransverse slits and depressed portions between the slits, saiddepressed portions forming a separating-layer between the photographs,so as to facilitate the insertion or removal of the same.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a vertical transversesection, Fig. 2 a front elevation, and Fig. 3 avertical transversesection, of my improved leaf for photograph-albums.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

My improved photograph-album leaf consists of an intermediate layer orframe7 A, of suitable card-board, into which is cut an oblong opening,a. b c d, of somewhat greater length than that of the photograph f gh i,that is to be inserted into the leaf. The layer Ais covered at bothsides with finished card-paper A A2, into which are eut transverse slitsB O and D E. The face-layers A A2 are next eX- posed at 4that portioninelosed between the slits B C and D E, and the longer sides a d and b cof the opening a b c d to the pressure of dies of corresponding shape,by which the middle portions of the face-layers A and A2 are depressedand brought closely back to back to each other, as shown in Figs. l and3, so as to form thereby panels at each side of the leaf for thephotographs.

-When it is desired to insert a photograph, its edge f g is firstinserted into the slit B C and moved up until the edge f g abuts againstthe edge a b rof the frame A. The lower edge, t' h, of the photograph isthen somewhat above the slit D E, and can then be inserted through thelatter and pushed down until it abuts against the edge d c of the frameA. In this manner the photograph is securely held in position andinserted without injury to the leaf. The photograph is removed from theleaf by reversing the operation described.

In my improved album leaf, the photographs are supported by thedepressed middle portions of the face-layers A A2, which middle portionsare integral with the outer portions of the face-layers, that cannot betorn or removed, as is generally the case with the loose intermediatelayers or sheets in the photograph-albums heretofore in use. Theshifting or dropping out of the photographs from the leaf is entirelyprevented, and a neater and more durable leaf for photograph-albumsthereby obtained.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patentl. Aleaf for photograph-albums, consisting of anintermediate layer of card-board, having an oblong opening of greaterlength than the photograph, and of face-layers having transverse slitsand depressed portions between the slits, said depressed portions beingmade integral with the face-layers, substantially as set forth.

2. A leaf for photograph-albums, in which the separating layer or sheetbetween the pictures is formed by depressed portions of the face-layersof the leaf, substantially as specifred.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my inventionI have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RICHARD MOSER.

Witnesses:

B. ROI, ALFRED LORENTZ.

